I was so pleased to hear Boris Johnson tell us that the EU spends billions helping Spaniards enjoy sadistic practices.

“Of the £20billion we send to Brussels a year, £10bn we never see again. It goes on all sorts of things like Greek tobacco farming and Spanish bullfighting,” he piffled to BBC Breakfast viewers.

My pleasure didn’t come from the BBC later pointing out Johnson was wrong because the EU has banned payments to Spanish farmers who rear bulls for fighting.

Nor did it come from hearing his Brexit Battle Bus was made in Germany and Poland.

No, I was chuffed because his lie perfectly summed up what this EU referendum debate has descended into: A huge bull fight. With politicians competing to see who can dump the biggest pile of bull faeces on their rivals.

Boris’s latest load of bull

How many of you had to be restrained Hannibal Lecter-style, for fear of biting your TV, as Iain Duncan Smith claimed he wants to leave the EU because it hurts the poor?

This from a man who has spent six years taking money from the poor in the hope some will top themselves and ease the welfare budget.

Born-again pacifist David Cameron warned that leaving the EU could start the Third World War. This from a man who wanted to bomb one side in the Syrian civil war and when we wouldn’t let him, came back and persuaded us to bomb the other side.

There was Johnson himself, who was asked on radio this week if it was true that on the day before he went public on Brexit he had two opposing newspaper columns written, one arguing we should stay in Europe, the other that we should go, because he wasn’t sure which route best suited his political ambitions.

David Cameron changes his mind on World War III (Image: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

He didn’t deny it.

And there’s Jeremy Corbyn’s half-hearted attempts to get behind Labour’s Remain line, when you suspect, if he were still a rebel ­backbencher, he’d be pulling in the ­opposite direction.

All of it uninspiring bull. Until ­frustrated Brexit cheerleaders dragged out a two-year-old story about the EU wanting to slash carbon emissions by making us switch to less powerful domestic appliances, and the bull was turned up to max.